A bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books and study guides

Below is an annotated bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books, and study guides. If you know of others please let me know. I have not included the few dictionaries that are from another Papua New Guinean language to Tok Pisin.

General

Churchill, William (1911). Beach-la-mar: The Jargon or Trade Speech of the Western Pacific. Pub. No. 154. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 54 pp. Reprinted in 1979 by AMS Press, New York. On pages 33-53, there is a pidgin to English dictionary. Churchill also includes a history, a grammar, a sample text, and a bibliography of his sources for the dictionary. The vocabulary is based on several older sources on Pacific Pidgin English, from 1844 through 1910. In print!

2. YourDictionary.com  Germanic Languages Early Modern english dictionaries Database Search Utility. English Language Books and Other Resources. English (gopherhttp://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/germanic.html

The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)

Editor: Ian Lancashire, Dept. of English, University of Toronto With grateful acknowledgement to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Grant no: 410-94-1088) and to the Department of English, University of Toronto (c) Ian Lancashire 1999 Date: October 15, 1999. Size: ca. 200,000 word-entries (1530-1657)

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E-mail comments and corrections to ian@chass.utoronto.caOverview of the EMEDD Few who see or read a play by Shakespeare realize that he wrote without access to an English dictionary as we know it. At his death in 1616, the only lexicons serving English were Edmund Coote's brief list of 1,368 words in his English Schoolmaster (1596) and Robert Cawdrey's list of 2,543 hard words in his Table Alphabeticall (1604). The lexicographical materials illuminating English for this period are very sizable, however, and until recently most have remained inaccessible to researchers. Historical dictionaries come in three kinds, "originals" (seminal works), derivative texts, and specialized subject lexicons on the language of business, canting, law, science, sea, etc. Upwards of 400 English dictionaries, including enhanced re-editions, revisions of these, and reprints exist up the late 18th century, but the number of seminal texts is much smaller. These can be bilingual or polyglot dictionaries, which link two or more languages for different purposes (language learning, etymological study, etc.), or monolingual dictionaries, which are reference works for a single language. Up to the 17th century, neither English nor French had a monolingual dictionary, and so bilingual and polyglot dictionaries are much more important in understanding Early Modern English then than they have been since. The first large monolingual English dictionary was published in 1656 by Thomas Blount.

Patterweb

Early Modern English Dictionaries Database Search Utility

Return toEMEDD Introduction (c) Ian Lancashire (1999) December 10, 2002 EMEDD access is restricted to academic researchers and librarians. I regret that I do not have the resources at this time to make access to EMEDD wider. I hope that access will improve in the next two years. If you are an academic researcher or teacher, please fill in the registration form. I will then contact you. Graduate students should indicate the faculty member with whom they are working. Note that EMEDD does not contain proper names of individuals. It is of very limited use to genealogists seeking information about their family members. It is at this time regretfully impossible to extend use of EMEDD to undergraduates and high school students. Note that you will be asked to use your main e-mail address as your EMEDD login name, to specify a password of your own choosing, to provide some information about yourself, and to agree to terms of usage. Please write down your password. If you forget your password, you must contact me.

6. The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) Similar pages www.chass.utoronto.ca8080/english/emed/patterweb.html Similar pages English electronic dictionary and language translators. English online. Ectaco English models of dictionaries. The translators. All of ourenglish dictionaries models have the widest range of features. Theyhttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/english/emed/emedd.html

The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)

Editor: Ian Lancashire, Dept. of English, University of Toronto With grateful acknowledgement to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Grant no: 410-94-1088) and to the Department of English, University of Toronto (c) Ian Lancashire 1999 Date: October 15, 1999. Size: ca. 200,000 word-entries (1530-1657)

Table of Contents

E-mail comments and corrections to ian@chass.utoronto.caOverview of the EMEDD Few who see or read a play by Shakespeare realize that he wrote without access to an English dictionary as we know it. At his death in 1616, the only lexicons serving English were Edmund Coote's brief list of 1,368 words in his English Schoolmaster (1596) and Robert Cawdrey's list of 2,543 hard words in his Table Alphabeticall (1604). The lexicographical materials illuminating English for this period are very sizable, however, and until recently most have remained inaccessible to researchers. Historical dictionaries come in three kinds, "originals" (seminal works), derivative texts, and specialized subject lexicons on the language of business, canting, law, science, sea, etc. Upwards of 400 English dictionaries, including enhanced re-editions, revisions of these, and reprints exist up the late 18th century, but the number of seminal texts is much smaller. These can be bilingual or polyglot dictionaries, which link two or more languages for different purposes (language learning, etymological study, etc.), or monolingual dictionaries, which are reference works for a single language. Up to the 17th century, neither English nor French had a monolingual dictionary, and so bilingual and polyglot dictionaries are much more important in understanding Early Modern English then than they have been since. The first large monolingual English dictionary was published in 1656 by Thomas Blount.

New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries Applications of the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 1 (April 1997)] Ian Lancashire and Michael Best, Editors Contents:

8. Appendix D. Using Welsh-English Dictionaries Here is the setext version of this lesson. Appendix D Using WelshEnglishDictionaries. Loan words from English tend not to be in dictionaries. Category Reference Dictionaries World Languages W Welshhttp://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/welsh/AppendixD.html

Notice that there are many cases where something that would be two letters in English is a single digraph in Welsh. This means, for example, that words beginning with "CH" are not alphabetized between any words that might begin with "CG" and words beginning with "CI"; they are alphabetized as a separate letter after all the "C"'s are done. To complicate matters further, "NG" is not always a single letter; sometimes it really does mean the letter "N" followed by a "G" (actually, it's pronounced more like the letter "NG" followed by a "G"), for example in the town "Ban.gor" (the period is not part of the spelling of the word, but is there to indicate that the "N" and "G" are separate letters). Likewise, "RH" is sometimes "R" followed by "H" as in "ar.holiad".

10. LITTLE EXPLORERS By Enchanted Learning Software Picture dictionary gives definitions, pictures, and Internet links for more than 1,100 words. Includes English and French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish to english dictionaries.http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html

Little Explorers

Little Explorers is a unique, free website that lets preschoolers and elementary school students surf the web easily. Children use a picture dictionary format to link to over 641 carefully chosen, fun educational activities (and it's growing daily). Little Explorers' pictorial interface makes it easy for children to surf the web and learn, and kids love it. Little Explorers is also an excellent resource for elementary school teachers to introduce younger students to the World Wide Web in a controlled environment. Little Explorers expands the Web's audience to include children who don't yet read. It lets children enter the World Wide Web, sample diverse knowledge and culture, and start to connect with the rest of the world.

Resources for Italian-English translators. In order to access the Italian-English dictionary and glossary page, you need a browser which is able to display frames, such as the latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer or OperaMichael Farrell - Linguistic Consultancy - E-mail: info@traduzioni-inglese.itMember of the Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti

14. Monolingual English Dictionaries And Glossaries Translate this page Monolingual english dictionaries, glossaries and reference works forItalian-English translators. Return to Index Monolingual Englishhttp://www.traduzioni-inglese.it/english.html

Monolingual English dictionaries, glossaries and reference works for Italian-English translators. In order to access the dictionary and glossary page, you need a browser which is able to display frames, such as the latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer or OperaMichael Farrell - Linguistic Consultancy - E-mail: info@traduzioni-inglese.itMember of the Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti

15. Some Variant Spellings In American English Dictionaries An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English Category Science Social Sciences......Variant Spellings in American english dictionaries. Amer Heri 3rd= American Heritage, 3rd Edition (1992) MerrWebs 10th = Merriam http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/varsp.html

19. AskOxford: World English Dictionaries World english dictionaries. A nation needs a dictionary for much more than findingthe meaning and pronunciation of words. Australian english dictionaries.http://www.askoxford.com/globalenglish/dictionaries/